Simply answer the following question.

If your answer is "Yes", please read on.

MTV is doing a casting call on all digital artists out there. Together with HP they're looking for all kinds of digital artists around the globe for their new series called the Engine Room.

Go to the website and send your digital art. This can be anything: Animations, websites, short films, sound mixes, digital art, you name it. Just show that you're creative enough to enter the room. Remember: Your only limit is your own imagination. React fast: Casting ends June 30th.

Personally, I really love this idea from MTV. Bringing several creative minds to one place to let them compete on a TV show is absolutely fascinating. I expect very innovative things to come out of this project.

A while ago, I wanted to buy me myself a new shirt for the holiday. I ended up searching online for the most beautiful design shirt, but there's just so many to choose from. Here's a round-up from what I think are the 12 most awesome design t-shirts that can give you some inspiration.

If you're not so much into design, you might want to check out the 30 funniest and geekiest shirts. If you like funny shirts, you should check out Glennz.

On the 9th of May 2008, Smashing Magazine announced a Smashing Textures Contest. The goal was set to let all readers take beautiful pictures that can be used as textures.

It was one amazing contest. They received in an enormous amount of e-mail from over 600 participants. The results speak for themselves: The Smashing Texture Gallery is one great Photoshop Resource.

My girlfriend (Amber from DressYourAss) and I were two of the 600 participants. The sun was shining and we took the afternoon to take some photo's with my camera to enter the texture contest. Two out of the ten that we send were selected by SmashingMagazine.

All photographs are taken with a simple camera on a bright day. None of them are edited in any way, exept some have non-texture parts removed. The pictures are taken in a very high resolution, perfect for Photoshop artwork.

A couple of days ago I recieved an advertisement from a store that has just opened his doors. Normally, I would throw those things directly away, but the simplicity of the design did draw my attention. I wanted to recreate the Web 2.0 looking ad and here I'll show you how.

So start up Photoshop, it won't be a long ride. There's no shame in always improving your Photoshop skills, so get ready to create a simple starry Web 2.0 ad with Photoshop.

The end of the month is coming closer and you know what it means: Part 2 of this months imagedump is there! Here's a small collection of the best, funniest or coolest images from May 2008.

Don't forget to check out part one in case you missed it. Enjoy!